Word: casa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santander. Here Don Angel, as his parishioners called him, saw at once how desperately Spain needed a socially conscious clergy. But though he did not fear to tread on this dangerous ground, Don Angel knew too much to rush in. Instead, he formed a small club called the Casa Sacerdotal. Priests came to the club, ostensibly to prepare their Sunday sermons. Actually they discussed world problems in terms of the most advanced Catholic social thinking. The nucleus of this vest-pocket reform movement was a handful of priests...
Life returned to the Congressional Palace, where President Juan Perón's constitutional convention had sat idle for three weeks. Briskly, on orders from the Casa Rosada, the convention approved a final, edited copy of the new constitution-almost exactly as the President himself had read it to the Peronista caucus two months before (TIME...
...Tenant. What lent some authority to the story was the fact that the army had already installed its watchdog in the Casa Rosada. Just down the hall from Perón's office, in the space recently vacated by the fallen Economic Czar Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration...
...Season. In San Juan Bautista, Calif., Catrino M. Lugo aimlessly fired a .45 pistol near the Casa Maria social hall, learned too late, after his speedy arrest, that a score of policemen were having a banquet there...
...bright spring sunlight the crowds milled about the plaza cheering Perón, who finally appeared on a balcony of the Casa Rosada in company with wife Eva and Minister of Interior Angel C. Borlenghi. Perón plunged into a half-screaming account of the "conspiracy." "Traitors to the country" had plotted his death, he shouted, because "international capitalists desire...